What should be placed in the tray is money. In order to have a sense of ceremony, Li Zheng asked his wife to cut a piece of red cloth and cover it.

"Daughter-in-law Youyi, this is the kindness of the villagers. You must accept it." Li Zheng's daughter-in-law, Chen Zou, came to Baitaotao and said.

Then he lifted the red cloth on the plate and handed the plate to Bai Taotao.

Bai Taotao did not reach out to take it.

Instead, he looked at the villagers below and said: "I appreciate the wishes of the villagers, but I will not accept the money. Originally, it was the bamboo shoots that the villagers worked hard to dig in the bamboo forest. I was just helping to talk to shopkeeper Qin." After a while, how can we take the hard-earned money of the villagers?"

"And we are all from the same village. I will benefit from the money from selling bamboo shoots in the end. In addition, the villagers usually help me a lot. We are helping each other, right? If I have difficulties in the future, Don’t I need everyone’s help?”

Chen Sanpo: "That's different. Without your clever method, how could the price of these bamboo shoots be so high? Most importantly, Yuelai Restaurant has also signed a long-term cooperation with us, which is equivalent to us every winter in the future. You can make a profit, and this is also your credit. So we are willing to give you this money today. You must accept it, otherwise the villagers will feel sorry for making you work so hard. As soon as you have the opportunity, you will Thinking about the big guys.”

The villagers echoed:

"That's right, that's right. The most important thing is, without the dishes you cooked, it's not even possible to sell these bamboo shoots, let alone sell them at such a good price."

"That's not it."

"Today's money, wife Youyi, you have to accept it no matter what."

While the villagers were talking enthusiastically, a discordant voice muttered, "Why are you pretending? These fifty taels are not a small amount of money. How can anyone in the world not want it? They still have to pretend in front of the villagers. If you ask me, It's fine if she doesn't want the money, and you can still get half a tael more."

Mrs. Chen Liu who said this thought at first that everyone was talking and could not hear her muttering, but it turned out that Li Zheng on the stage just raised his hand, and the villagers just fell silent, and they just happened to hear what she said. .

As soon as these words came out, all the villagers stared at Chen Liu.

Mrs. Chen Liu looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water and said: "Why are you looking at me like this? Am I wrong? That's fifty taels of silver, fifty taels!! Only fools don't want it. She is just I'm just pretending to you, do you really think she won't want it?"

Grandma Chen, who was standing next to Mrs. Chen Liu, angrily scolded: "Do you think everyone is like you? You are a vicious and short-sighted woman."

Chen Liu didn't expect that she would be called a poisonous woman, and she immediately became unhappy, "Who are you calling a poisonous woman? You are the poisonous woman, your whole family is a poisonous woman, you old man. Since she doesn't want the money, If you don’t want it, don’t want it. Don’t push me down. Wouldn’t it be nice for you guys to get an extra half a tael of silver? You have to be like a Bodhisattva. If you don’t want it, then give it all to me.”

"Boom~~~"

Granny Chen hit Mrs. Chen Liu on the head with a cane, which made Mrs. Chen Liu stunned on the spot.

"Dong dong dong~~~"

Before Mrs. Chen Liu could react, she received several more canes on her body. Granny Chen yelled angrily while beating her: "If you call me an old woman, if you call me an old woman, we won't give this money to you even if we give it to a beggar. This money is the kindness of our fellow villagers to Youyi's daughter-in-law." You didn’t agree when we were asking for everyone’s opinions, so you had no part in it.”

After lunch and before the money was divided, Li Zheng had already called everyone for a small meeting, but Bai Taotao was not called.

The purpose is to solicit everyone's opinions on giving Bai Taotao a sum of money.

Chen Liu was famous for being picky, so she naturally disagreed with this matter, so Chen Lizheng calculated her share first, and gave 50 taels of the remaining silver to Bai Taotao as a thank you gift, and the rest Only then are they distributed to the villagers.

She didn't take advantage of Mrs. Chen Liu in the first place, but she was still forcing her to do so. How could Granny Chen coddle her and beat her with a cane.

"Chen Deyi, I'm about to be beaten to death, why don't you help me quickly?"

Mrs. Chen Liu wanted to backhand, but Granny Chen had a walking stick in her hand. Even though Granny Chen was older than her, Granny Chen had better body and bones than Mrs. Chen Liu. Mrs. Chen Liu had suffered a lot this year, and her body and bones were not as big as before, and now they were even worse. He couldn't be Granny Chen's opponent, so he could only get beaten.

Unable to fight back, I thought of bringing in reinforcements.

But whether Granny Chen is an old man or an old woman in the village, how can Chen Deyi, a grown man, interfere? And what about so many people in the village watching? If he interferes, the whole village will tear him apart.

In the end, he had to be forced to kneel down in the ancestral hall by the clan elders.

He can no longer stand such torture. Half a year in prison has already made him suffer enough. If he is imprisoned in a cold ancestral hall, he will never be able to get out again.

Since he couldn't help, he just turned around and left with his hands behind his back.

Anyway, their family has received their money, so there is nothing wrong with their family.

Seeing Chen Deyi leave, Chen Liu went completely crazy and simply lay on the ground and started pretending to be dead.

Seeing this, Chen Lizheng said loudly: "Daughter-in-law Zhou, please take a few people to carry this unruly shrew back to their Chen family." After saying that, he angrily scolded Mrs. Chen Liu: "Mrs. Chen Liu, if you do this again in the future, If you continue to mess around like this, your family will not be involved in anything in the village from now on. If anything happens to your family in the future, don’t bother the fellow villagers."

After hearing what Chen Lizheng said, Chen Debao and Chen Dekuan had always been dissatisfied with the Chen Liu family, so they immediately stood up.

Chen Debao: "Li Zheng, it should have been like this a long time ago. If we didn't share the money this time because we all belong to the same village, we would not agree to share it with their families. When digging bamboo shoots, one leg hurts and I can't get out of bed, and the other two We are old and have just been sick and tired. Oh, we are just tired. Which one of us who dug bamboo shoots this time is not older? The money we paid for the bamboo shoots we worked so hard to dig out was worth several cents in the end. Two taels of silver for their family. It would be fine if he was a sensible person who shut up after taking the taels of silver, but he is still such an unreasonable person."

Chen Dekuan: "That's right, I don't know how many times this has happened? Every time something big happened in the village, their family would cause trouble. The same happened with the water windmill before. Their own fields couldn't get water, so they had to come from other people's fields. If we don’t allow water to be released, why don’t other people’s fields want water? If we don’t allow water to be released, we want to destroy the water windmill. If we hadn’t been watched or worried that someone would damage it, would our entire village’s autumn harvest have gone smoothly this year?”

"During the autumn harvest, the big guys thought that their family was small, and they saw that the grain was about to fall to the ground. But the big guys kindly helped to take the grain back to her. Do you think she is grateful? She is so kind. If they kill the dog, they should let all their food fall to the ground and not be able to recover it." (End of Chapter)

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